If they wanted to honor or remember the fallen on those beaches, what they should have done is rebroadcast Ronald Reagan’s speech from the 40th anniversary.
“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men of the cliffs”
That’s a good solution. Another thing is that the civilian dead and German dead are memorialized on the beach. Wrong. The stark facts of that beach make it entirely an Allied memorial because it was the crossing of that beach that made this campaign so indelible to all. There are plenty of memorials there; all that is left is to respect and honor them.